Sony has yet to reveal the official launch date of the PS Vita in each territory, but it now looks as though the UK at least will be getting it on October 28.

News of the date appeared via Blockbuster which has the handheld listed on an advertisement for “Upcoming Games Releases.” As you can see from the image below, the PS Vita (Wi-Fi and 3G models) are both marked down as releasing on October 28.

There’s no confirmation from Sony as to the validity of this date, but then why else would it be listed there? It also fits with the widely held belief PS Vita would ship in November.

The other news to appear about the PS Vita is which company is supplying the processor at its heart. With the PSP, Sony provided the CPU itself, the CXD2962GG based on a MIPS R4000 32-bit core. But this time Sony is thought to have handed off chip production to Samsung who will be providing the required quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore.

That may come as a surprise to Japanese gamers not used to having Samung components shipped in their devices, but it makes sense for Sony to use a manufacturer with a lot of experience producing these ARM chips.

If the PS Vita does launch on October 28 in the UK, then we can expect Japan and the U.S. to either get it on the same day or within days of it. That also means we’ll finally get to play the launch titles including LittleBigPlanet, ModNation Racers,WipeOut 2048, Ruin, Bioshock, Street Fighter X Tekken, Super Stardust Delta, Hot Shots Golf, Virtua Tennis 4, BlazBlue, Gravity, and Shinobido 2: Tales of Ninja, to name but a few.